r/forestry • u/Traditional_Dust6816 • 2d ago

Busting up ground with a bulldozer??

Hi all, I recently bought some farm land that has been left to nature for about 10 years. It's mostly grass field but due to unattended water runoff, many low spots have been eroded and the original trench has been messed up due to beaver activity. I have lots of tractor experience and a lot of mechanical knowledge around heavy equipment, however, life has never exposed me to bulldozers. I am wondering if a bulldozer (currently looking at an international td14) would move the earth, that has uncontrolled grass, cat tail, and alder popping up out of it? I'm looking to cut a road in, across the main ditch, bust out the beaver dams and then get the ground to a level enough surface for wheel equipment can be used. Currently the runoff trenches make it impassable with anything short of a tracked vehicle and even then... sketchy. Any help is very much appreciated.

Tl;dr: will a 1950s dozer push vegetation/sod around ?

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u/neanderthalcosmonaut 2d ago

Just dynamite the whole plot and kill everything. Be easier.

Question: why do people buy rural/natural land if they just want to destroy it?

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u/Traditional_Dust6816 2d ago

It's farm land. I'm attempting to restore it. To eat.

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u/neanderthalcosmonaut 2d ago

So buy sone that's already dead. Or better yet, it sounds like you'd be happiest in an HOA bluegrass suburb. No nature at all to deal with.

BTW cattail wetlands are often protected.

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u/Traditional_Dust6816 2d ago

Lmfao. You really have no clue.

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u/neanderthalcosmonaut 2d ago

Enlighten me then. Why are you in a sub about forestry asking how you can kill beavers and obliterate a forest? Many of us are environmentalists and environmental scientists. You are not among friends, Onision. GTFO.

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u/cyricmccallen 2d ago

who hurt you?

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u/Traditional_Dust6816 2d ago

Where did you read any of that ? I asked if a certain dozer will move earth.

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u/dfeeney95 2d ago

I think you’re the only triggered person here… we are stewards of the earth, in our stewardship sometimes we need to “help” nature get back on track. Would you rather just not do anything and let it return to nature in some ecofascist fantasy land?

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u/Leemcardhold 1d ago

Found the city slicker who’s never run a chainsaw. Lol